Tuesday, May 25, 2010

Sunday, May 9, 2010

A few month ago I was invited to join the art noise band DJ Third Arm & the Tentacles for a concert in Performance Hotel in Stuttgart. At some point I stopped playing to shoot this short video where you can see impro guitarist David Bausseron playing his MIDI nylon string Godin and Michl Schmidt with... er... well, his third arm messing with cheap turntables... It was a very cool (and noisy) concert!

Saturday, May 8, 2010

The new lipstick on my Televangelist sounds as good as it looks, and the upgraded guitar was baptized on stage tonight... Unfortunately I also changed the varnish to a glossy lack that looks quite awful and was damaged already during the performance - when the previous finish resisted the rehearsals much better. So I have to sand it off and start again...

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Here it comes again, carried by a spring breeze, the recurent baritone project... This is what seems to be the proper design, but I said that before for other attempts... Anyway I let it macerate a couple of weeks, build a cardboard model and then we'll see!

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Is it vain to have a personal guitar blog - one more guitar blog? Probably...

But when I started to pay more and more attention to my guitars - lifetime companions and much more than mere working tools -, I've been quite happy to gather information on the net, on blogs, forums, fan sites, etc... So maybe some people will benefit in a way or another from this one.

And maybe also one day someone will see and appreciate my design work and ask me to design guitars for his project or his company - feel free to contact me if you're interested!

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a shameful guitar joke

A sunburst Stratocaster walks into a bar, orders a beer and takes a stool next to a hot-looking Les Paul Goldtop, who's sipping an umbrella drink. The Strat leers at the Les Paul for several minutes and then says, "Hey, that's some set of humbuckers you got on you, darlin'."

"You're not getting any feedback off of me with a pickup line like that," the Goldtop says indignantly.